Improved medicine for hog-cholera



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. MASON, OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY.v

IMPROVED MEDICINE FOR HOG-CHOLERA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,075, dated July 3, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. MASON, of the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Medicine for the Prevention and Cure of the Disease of Hogs popularly known as Hog-Cholera, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a chemical combination or compound the components of which,with the proportions in which they respectively enter into to form said compound, are as follows: Arsenicum, six grains; cup'ri sulphatis, SlX grains; pulverized phytolacca, sixty grains. These quantities of each component, when com bined by rubbing together in a mortar, produce a sufficient quantity of the compound or medicine called by me the American Hog- Oholera Cure to make three doses of twentyfour grains each, one dose of which, adminisnamed, in the proportion above set forth, or

of any other components when combined resulting in a compound with similar properties, which components so combined or compound are a prevention and cure of the disease popularly known as hog-cholera.

J OHN L. MASON.

Attest BYRON BACON, AMOS SnEBoL'r. 

